No you’re getting billed for this too
ta-da!
Worse they will get to sue everyone associated with the failed rescue.
What really makes me angry is that media is full of some millionaires drowning in a rattle can steered with a 30$ Logitech controller while there are 100s of people drowning in the Mediterranean Sea every week because they are illegally pushed back by authorities and media is silent about it…
What do you mean, the media is silent about this? There’s tons of articles about that exact thing.
But for the last 4 days the very top of every newsanchors’ headline was something else. Probably that’s what he means.
Has to do more with end user. People want the mystery: are they alive, are they dead, did they implode, are they floating on the surface some where. If they are alive there’s a million questions about it. It’s just the way of the beast.
I also think it has to do with proximity - this happened close to “home”.
People are also stupid, some of the questions they were asking and stating that it’s a conspiracy because if the titanic is still whole how did a sub implode because they arent sure how a pressurized chamber works is astounding.
To follow that, they probably don’t know where Greece is.
Exactly.
There has been a lot of coverage, yes, but media didn’t make as much noise… the stories about migrants drowning was soon banned to page 7-13 on local newspapers… while this millionaire drama is all over the media for days now…
That kinda makes sense though, since there was no ongoing rescue/recovery operation to talk about. There’s only so many articles you can write about a bunch of people drowning.
Oh, you could write a lot. About the organization that pushed the people back into the water. About the politicians that sanctioned this. About the lives of those people who drowned. About the process of drowning. You can pretty much write a book about this. But no. It’s immigrants, that’s normal right?
Fair enough, but I would argue that a lot of these things are more general and not necessarily specific to this incident itself, so they are not really breaking news in that sense.
Blame lionardo dicaprio
I think very few care about the money they had
Billionaires, huuuuuuuge difference in wealth even if it’s only a letter apart
A million seconds is 11 eleven days, a billion seconds is 31 years
Always remember that difference to have a filling of how filthy rich billionaires are
My favourite version of this is “the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion”
The coast guard has never charged for search and rescue. This was not an ambulance ride.
Similar kind of stuff happens all the time, where public institutions bear the cost and consequences of private enterprises. Good example of a not too dissimilar situation was Memorial Hospital during Katrina, where instead of sending private helicopters and rescue, the firm that owned the hospital opted to wait for “free” US government rescue.
Privatize the profits, but socialize the losses.
Of course not. No consequences for the billionaires. Instead, we will pay.
It will probably be the company that owns the sub that get’s billed. Given that the founder and CEO of the company was the pilot of the sub the company will probably declare bankruptcy.
Where I live if you fall and injure yourself on an established hiking/climbing route, in season, you will be rescued for free (regular ambulance rides are free anyway).
If you climb or hike off track, out of season you might be charged for a helicopter ride or mountain rescue. As you can imagine it’s not cheap.
regular ambulance rides are free anyway
what in tarnation
Non-americans are not shocked by this😇
That should be on case in all of Europe (in Germany and Italy for sure). It’s covered but your insurance as long as there is an emergency. So you can’t just use the ambulance as a taxi, then you would be billed the whole amount.
I was only once in an ambulance in the past 30 years or so. There, my insurance came to me afterwards and billed me a 10€ share. For some reason I found this infuriating. (Germany)
If I take an unregistered, uncertified, uninsured vehicle to a place that has no roads and I get myself in a huge pickle out there, you can bet your ass I will be billed for the rescue. And probably fined on top of it for fuckin up the environment in the process.
Also as a hiker, I have a satellite comms device in case my ass needs rescued. And I have SAR insurance, because my ass cannot afford the bill.
This seems quite reasonable to me, and if you are doing the more risky activities, then presumably you’d get some insurance to take the edge off the rescue charges.
If this is referring to the submarine rescue, generally-speaking, rescue efforts by the US Coast Guard or the Park Service or the like are paid for by the government. Interestingly, at least for the Park Service, this is the opposite of the situation with Europe, where it’s common to have rescue insurance if one is heading out into the wilderness hiking or whatnot. This is the reverse of the situation with medical services.
In general I’m all for having it paid for but in this instance, nope.
Which means ultimately it’s paid by us.
Remeber that time a couple wanted to sail around the world, bought a boat but didn’t know how to sail rally, took their newborn on it, then had to get rescued at sea? People were pissed about the cost of that rescue, calling the couple dumb and entitled and whatnot. I think they had to pay some of the rescue cost back. Personally I don’t know that I’m wild about charging people for rescues, it’s hard to draw a line between legitimate adventure travel, say hiking in a national park, and a reckless stunt.
I haven’t landed at a position on it either, but I could definitely see how if people understood they had to pay at least some portion of the rescue costs, they will try to be more educated and prepared when venturing out into the wild/at sea. Its extremely important to take this stuff seriously and too many people already treat nature like a joke and get themselves in terrible situations cause they just know a helicopter can come pick them up*
In my state we have a stupid motorist law that bills the driver if the drive into a flooded wash and need to get rescued. This typw of law should apply. Accidents are Accidents. But if you willfully ignore safety regulations and signage you get the bill.
I wish. But what I know of the current affair of things, I can only hypothesize two outcomes:
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The benefit after the costs of potential rescue, and now the discovery of 5 recognizable pieces of the craft, will be a learning moment and there will be more regulation of deep sea diving for tourism in the near future. And the families of the victims will say that’s enough and probably name the legislation after one, or a few of the victims.
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The family of the victims will make sure OceanGate will never build another deep sea vessel ever again. This one will depend on the legal logistics. Just like how some airlines caused airliner crashes due to pure negligence, some of the first-class families weren’t able to sue them into non-existence due to international airspace and/or waters protections.
Because either of those two things are what typically happens in such a scenario. At least lately.
- The benefit after the costs of potential rescue, and now the discovery of 5 recognizable pieces of the craft, will be a learning moment and there will be more regulation of deep sea diving for tourism in the near future. And the families of the victims will say that’s enough and probably name the legislation after one, or a few of the victims.
There are already regulations, the problem is that once they go to the ocean there are international waters so they are not required to follow them. That’s exactly what the cocky CEO did. He was vocal that regulations “impair innovation” and “it is not as dangerous”.
- The family of the victims will make sure OceanGate will never build another deep sea vessel ever again. This one will depend on the legal logistics. Just like how some airlines caused airliner crashes due to pure negligence, some of the first-class families weren’t able to sue them into non-existence due to international airspace and/or waters protections.
From what I understand they don’t really have much assets, the CEO was the guy with the vision and is now dead, the company reputation is ruined. Even if the families wouldn’t go after them it is unlikely the company will exist.
It is possible that those people will look for jobs in other similar companies, but hopefully under somebody who is more sensible and listens to experts.
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I would have expected that the owner of the submarine pieces would be footing the bill for this. After all, he is at the head of this fuck-up.
is it bad that I read “floating the bill for this” ?
What is this about
The submersible that imploded near the Titanic wreck.
Nah, that sort of shit is for plebs.
I wonder to what extent the massive imbalance in news coverage was simply super wealthy families handing journalists pre-written pieces so that laziness would dictate this result (rather than the journalists doing this naturally, although laziness is natural enough I guess).
